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Exactly. For Ukraine, a peace treaty now that allows Russia to regroup and invade again in N years is not really helpful.

The gap between haves and have nots is more related to politics than economics IMO. It's about how the value is (re)distributed.

> there's no way the top 10% receive 10% of the services.

Depends on how you value the service of protecting that wealth. Prooperty rights enforced by the state, and the more property one has, the more one benefits from that.

Rereading the previous comments, I agree you're right. Good analogy.

That's exactly what GDP measures: how much money people have paid and gotten paid for things.

"GDP measures everything except that which is worthwhile"

Well, there are often threads lamenting that open source maintainers don't get paid more.

LLMs cannot explode. People need to be educated that LLMs are as trustworthy as a random page or post on the internet.

> You can be a great studio painter, but not be able to "talk to" Stable Diffusion at all. Likewise, you may have zero artistic ability in the traditional sense, but be a prodigy at getting the computer to spit out what you are imagining, or something even better than that.

I'm not so sure about this. Both require visualizing something upfront, evaluating the resulting images and understanding what needs to change.

It's a bit like digital and analog photography. Digital makes the skills of getting a good exposure less relevant and allows post-processing. But a photographer still needs to know what makes a good photo.

This doesn't invalidate the original point though. Making a living as a photographer became harder with the advent of digital photography.

> The logic of most prominent programming languages, such as Python, is based on English vocabulary and syntax — using terms like “while” or “if not” to trigger certain actions — which makes it that much more difficult to learn for non-native speakers. Furthermore, many of the most popular educational resources for learning to code, including Stack Exchange, are also in English.

It seems to me that the latter is a much bigger problem for Spanish. Programming languages have relatively few keywords. I imagine English keywords might be a big problem for people who doesn't know the latin alphabet though.

I understand, but I must say that it doesn't sound very efficient to be working in an office for 8 hours every day in order to have useful spontaneous connections every once in a while. Meetups and other events also provide such interactions without having to be there all the time while coding, writing, etc.

The someone was Pedro's brother Miguel. After losing the war, he was banished and his descendents removed from the succession line, but they now claim to be heirs to the throne of Portugal (which nobody really cares about).

This all happened after the royal family escaped the French invasions to Brazil and Rio de Janeiro became the capital of Portugal. The story of Pedro, the independence of Brazil and the Portuguese liberal wars is really interesting.

I think b) without a) would be a bit of a red flag. Almost everyone I know has lived together in some way before getting married.

I agree children can cause problems in relationships. My point was more that they're a very strong reason against splitting up.